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Shaman Village
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Looking
down on Kuksadang, we can also see one of the many shaman-Buddhist temples
in this shaman village, and part of downtown Seoul.
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| The gate to a small village temple. The door shows the indigenous beliefs that Koreans held long before Buddhism arrived: the painting is of the crater at the peak of Mount Baekdu (in North Korea), where the father of Dan-gun, Korea's first king, descended from Heaven in B.C. 2333. Read more here. | ||
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One
of the shaman-Buddhist temples in Kuksadang Ville.
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Downtown
Seoul, from the peak of Mount Inwang.
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